Skins have been a joke for so long that no one takes you seriously anymore. Who’s playoff nemesis is the Seahawks?? It’s hilarious to watch the debauchery unfold. You sell the farm to get the best player out of college in years and you BLOW it, just like you and your loser organization does annually. It’s beautiful. It’s grand. I enjoy to watch.

Sincerely,

Jimmy McNulty BPD

Ed Reed’s leverage will similarly to Ellerbe and Kruger be in what another team is willing to pay. The Ravens usually have a very good grasp on what their players are worth. Thus I don’t think Reed has much leverage at all.

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Shouldn’t a SUPERFAN like yourself at least know how to spell Ed Reed’s name.

There were about 50 headlines about him, you should know how to spell his last name by now!!!!!

The Ravens’ “problem” was a lot of guys played well on the biggest stage you have, and their contracts happened to be up. A little extra visibility is going a long way, and GMs with more cap room than sense think magic might be real. All of the now ex-Ravens are making too much money. There’s a reason CLE and MIA are in the basement — and it ain’t because of smart GMing.

You can’t blame the players, the league treats them like crap so why wouldn’t they go get paid. But for the love of anything, stop acting like Flacco’s contract was the impetus for a mass exodus. Had they lost to Indy in the divisional Boldin would still be gone, Kruger would be making half what he just got, and Ellerbe would have re-signed.

Not sure which team you were watching, it certainly wasn’t the 2012 Baltimore Ravens!

Yeah, thats it, LOL. Washington is the joke which where everyone wants to go to get their final payday and relax. The funny thing is, the Skins arent even good and they are ALREADY in cap hell, AGAIN. LOL. Enjoy the 6-10 season this year, and the new name!

Again with the straw man? Everyone else in the NFL seems to understand that Brady’s contract involved taking less money than he could have gotten if he had pursued the Manning/Flacco/everyone else strategy. Instead he got a minor boost now and guaranteed (but less than market value) money later, and the team got a big cap reduction now and no cap-killing contract squabble with its franchise QB later (see: Flacco). That’s called win/win. Only PFT and its lead conspiracy theorist have created this “less money now” silliness.

Maybe they could sign Ryan Fitzpatrick! Or draft Kyle Boller! Or trade for Kevin Kolb! I mean ANY QB can go through a postseason throwing 11 TD’s and 0 INT’s. Or 18 TD’s and 2 INT’s over the last 3 postseasons! I mean Matt Ryan could do that only if he had a WR who was fast, and a WR who could win a jump ball or 2! I mean Julio Jones could never win jump balls or run by people! Roddy White isn’t in Torrey Smith’s league!

Some of you idiots kill me with the flat out refusal to give Flacco any credit at all.

And besided, when guys like Bolding were making exceptional catches in double coverage and the defense was keeping the Ravens in close games… I totally thought… you know, Flacco deserves the most money of anyone who ever played pro football.

If Manning, Brees, Brady or any other QB made the same plays Flacco did during the playoff run, they would be looked at completely different. Time for people to get over it and realize Flacco is a top QB in this league. Is he the best? No, but he is a proven winner that has the hardware to prove it.

But you never really give a reason why. You go on to explain why others left and why remaining players have a right to expect more based upon what Flacco got.

But you never quite get around to explaining why a team that has no history of making knee jerk decisions that don’t improve the team would all of the sudden go crazy and overpay a 34 year old safety that they had already pretty much decided to move on without.

If anything, it makes less sense to keep him now that the others are gone. Why pay top dollar at one position on defense when you’ve already decided to go young and cheap at others?

You sound like a stalker. Get over your obsession with Brady.

The bottom line is… Guys who had much more to do with the ravens getting to the Super Bowl feel they should have gotten paid before flacco

Especially veterans like boldin.

ANYONE can lob a ball up and hope a receiver makes play after play after play… Like Torrey smith and Anquan boldin and jacoby jones made.

But not every receiver can finish those plays like those three did.

With ray Lewis gone, ellerbe was the ONLY real linebacker left on the squad. And he was making plays with one hand in a huge cast. They’d definitely pay him, right? Nope!

The ravens would have been better off paying everyone else and letting flacco walk. No other team would benefit him the way the ravens have. Even if he went to Atlanta with this two receivers and tony Gonzalez… He wouldn’t have anywhere bear the same success.

I think Reed is New England bound. They’ve been awfully quiet and everyone knows how Belichick feels about Reed, and vice-versa.